St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-11
DAKOTA LEGlsLATURE.
Railroad and Insurance Measures.
Sioux Falls Comes UP Smiling.
Specfai to the GLOBE.

Spectai to the GLOBE.
BISMARCK, Feb. 10.-The legislature
passed a comparatively quiet day. There
was slight rafting in the house over the
passage of a local option bill and in the
council over bill providing that mutual
benefit associations could be operated in the
territory without their property being SUBJ
ject to taxation. In the house, Gilbert, of
Sioux Falls, introduced Dill legalizing the
election held in that city authorizing the
issuance Of $50, 900 bonds as bonus to the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Iowa railway.
the bonds to run twenty years at a rate of
interest not to exceed Z per cent. This bill,
with the exception of the time fixed for the
bonds and the rate of interest. is the same
as the measure vetoed by Acting Gov. Nc
Cormack. and over which the fight was
made in the house yesterday. The bill will
pass the house and council and will prob
ably be submitted to Gov. Church next
week for his approval, and it is thought
that he will not veto it. 1t is claimed that
in the refusal of the house to pass the bill
yesterday over the governors veto there was
a desire on the part of the house to
STRIKE A BLOW
at the council and by Meteor and Sullivan
to get a blow at Grigsby. AS it is now the
bill starts in the house and Gilbert gets the
credit for its introduction. j. H. Fletcher's
BILL entitled, IAN act to prohibit the sale of
liquor by local option" was considered by
the house in committee Of the whole. An
abstract of the bill was published in the
GLOBE a few days ago on its introduction.
AS passed to-day it was amended as fol-
lows: The clause land no election shall
be held under this act except upon petition
of at least 200 legally qualified voters" was
struck out. The following section was
added:
In addition to the penalties now prescribed
by law any person or persons who may sell
any intoxicating liquors without a license
having been duly granted as provided by law,
or when license is granted in violation of this
act, shall be restrained from so doing by
proper Injunction issued by the court or
Judge thereof, and any person may secure
such injunction and may use the name of the
county as plaintiff in the suit, and TO Sc
curity shall be required, and the district at
torney of such county shall in all things con-
duct such prosecution
The bill stirred up lively debate, but its
opponents were so largely i'll the minority
that they
CUT BUT A SMALL FIGURE.
The house is strongly temperance and
thirty-five members out of forty eight an
passage. Its fathers claim that there is no
doubt that it will pass the council. Hugh
Campbelrs prohibitory measure is yet to be
heard from. Among the bills introduced
in the house were the following:
B. Mr. Greene, an act to prohibit the de-
structiOn of beavers in the territory. The
bill provides that any one caught hunting
beaver may be fined 500 and imprisoned not
exceeding thirty days; by J. Nj. Moore, an
act to amend section A. Of chapter - of the
political code granting women the rights of
suffrage; by j. II. Fletcher, an act to relieve
the owners of lands plated for town sites
from unjust taxation,
DR.. II. w. Coe. OF Mandan, who was ap-
pointed by Gov. Pierce to examine the cat
tie of Mr.. Clark, residing in the northern
portion of Minor county, south of De
Smet, to ascertain whether they were af-
Ilicted with pleuro- pneumonia, reported
that the disease was
A MINED TYPE OF CATARRH.
In the council the Hughes bill taxing
railroad property was passed. Some loud
talk was created over the house bill that
was lobbied through by st. Paul insur-
ance agent who won the title of "Whisper-
ing Dick' while here. His persistence in
buttonholing members and talking to them
in an undertone won for him this name.
The bill provided that mutual
benefit associations or insurance
organizations operated in connection
with beneficiary orders should be
exempt tIom taxation. Alex Hughes
fought the bill on the ground that it was
drawn up for the purpose of giving snide
insurance companies an opportunity to i'm
pose Oh the people of the territory without
uaying taxes. After a hard fight the bill
was killed. Among the bills introduced in
the council was the following by Mr..
Dodge of Jamestown: A bill for an act
providing for the refunding of the premiums
on bonds to certain public institutions. The
territorial auditor is hereby authorized and
directed to transfer from the general fund
of the territory of Dakota to the building
funds of the following named public insti-
tutions. these sums: North Dakota uni
yersity, Grand Forks, S76s; University of
Dakota at Vermillion, $3.50; jamestown in
sane asylum, So, 016. the same being the
nremiuins derived FROM the sale of bonds
enthoriZed by the session laws of 1885.